Pirrone said police are looking into whether the suspects have been stealing other personal effects from grave sites around the cemetery to put in their house.

"We believe that they may have been stealing from the cemetery and using them to decorate their house," Pirrone said.

Travis Lapell, 34, and Taiya Armer, 41, were both charged with petit larceny for Sunday's alleged theft. Those charges only stem from the theft of the man's Mother's Day flowers.

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Pirrone said additional charges could be filed. Several items — including more flowers — at the couple's nearby home may have been stolen from the cemetery, he said.

Pirrone said the man who watched as his wife's flowers were stolen had left the bouquet on her grave earlier in the afternoon. The unidentified man's family has several grave sites around the cemetery, Pirrone said.

After leaving the flowers on his wife's grave, he spent a few hours Sunday walking through the cemetery visiting his family's gravestones.

When the man went back toward his wife's grave later, he spotted Lapell and Armer taking the flowers, Pirrone said.

He watched as they put the flowers in the back of a truck and drove off, Pirrone said. The man then followed the pair to their house, called police and waited for cops to arrive.

Both Lapell and Armer were released after their arrests.

Anyone who believes items may have been stolen from grave sites at Village Cemetery should call police at 885-5033, Pirrone said.